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summit, ground color dirty white, mouth parts black; ground color 

 enclosing a triangular black space in front ; bottom, middle and sum- 

 mit of eyes with black spots, sometimes confluent; eyes with exceed- 

 ingly minute sparse hairs. Body cylindrical, considerably enlarged 

 anteriorly on the third and fourth segments. Ground color dark 

 purple. On all segments a subdorsal line of black spots, strongly 

 edged with orange, especially on the middle segments. On the third 

 and fourth segments, directly below the first subdorsal line, appears 

 a second double line of black spots in pairs, each pair joined and 

 included by an oval orange patch. On each of the other segments 

 are two other spots directly behind the first subdorsal. These are 

 edged with orange, especially in front and more conspicuously on 

 the middle segments. The black spots, especially at the middle seg- 

 ments have a slight tuberculous tendency and from each of them a 

 single, short minute black hair projects, barely visible to the naked 

 eye. There is also a row of sublateral patches, white anteriorly, 

 orange posteriorly, broadest behind and narrowing toward the front, 

 each patch containing from three to seven irregularly located and 

 varying velvety black dots. The first and second pair of anal legs 

 are wanting. The larva is consequently geometriform and has the 

 geometriform mode of progression. The fore legs are black, with 

 whitish orange towards the base. Anal legs orange on the outside, 

 their color being confluent with the lateral patch except in last pair. 

 Anal legs somewhat projecting behind. A cluster of five or six 

 minute hairs projects horizontally and directly above and between 

 the anal claws. The rows of subventral black dots nearly correspond 

 as to position with the subdorsal but want color; from each dot, hairs 

 similar to subdorsal project." 



Pupa. — Length io mm. Width 4 mm. Color uniformly reddish 

 brown. 



Cocoon. — Length 15 mm. Width 10 mm. Oval, thin, parchment- 

 like covering with particles of soil or other foreign matter attached 

 to outer surface. 



This species is found along the Atlantic Coast. Smith (Trans. 

 Am. Ent. Soc, vol. 27, p. 60) gives the distribution, " New York and 

 southward to Florida and Texas, not common." The local records 

 which we have obtained are as follows: Rye (J. A.) ; New York and 

 vicinity (Elliot Coll.) ; Long Island (Shoemaker, Doll) ; Great Kill, 



